McKinley and Cabinet

Spain promises reforms

McKinley's appeasement

• June 16, 1897 - Hawaii annexation submitted
  • protectorate declared - against Japan
• minister Stewart Woodford to Spain
  • demanded armistice, withdrawal
• Aug. 9 - Conservative Canovas killed
• Oct. - Sagasta promised autonomy, removes Weyler
• Dec. 6 - McKinley said Spain on "honorable path"
• Feb. 9, 1898 - de Lome letter to friend in Cuba
  • "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, a common politician...
  • Hearst: "Worst Insult to the U.S."

USS Maine

• Feb. 15 at 9:40 pm explosion - 264 dead of 350 crew
  
• Mar. 6 - McKinley requested $50m for military bill
  
• Mar. 15 - "marble king" Redfield Proctor speech
  
• Mar. 27 - McKinley demanded arbitration
  
• Apr. 5 - Sagasta declared armistice, but no indepen.
  
• Apr. 6 - McKinley postponed war speech
  
• Apr. 11 - war message sent to Congress
  
• Apr. 19 - Teller Amendment
  
  • no "sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control"
    

Splendid Little War

• war lasted 10 weeks, 5462 U.S. dead
• Apr. 25 - war declaration signed by McKinley
  
• Apr. 27 - Dewey gets orders to attack Manila fleet
  
• May 1 at 5:41 am - Dewey on Olympia: "You may fire when ready, Gridley" then eats breakfast
  
• May 15 - TR led his Rough Rider 1st Vol. Cavalry
  
• May 19 - Adm. Wm. Sampson vs. fleet in Santiago
  
• May 30 - Gen. Wm. Shafter to capture Santiago , Gen. Nelson Miles to take Puerto Rico
  
• June 22 - Daiquiri landing - 32 ships with 20,000
  
• June 24 - Las Guasimas - black 10th Cavalry
  
• July 1 - Kettle Hill, San Juan Hill - TR used pistol from USS Maine to kill a Spaniard
  
• July 3 - Comm. W.S. Schley defeated Cervera
  
• Aug. 12 - Manila fell, armistice signed (Cuba free, cede P.R. & Guam, occupy Manila)
  

Philippines

• Sept. 5 - Malolos Constitution, Aguinaldo govt.
  
• Oct. 1 - Paris talks - seek only Luzon
  
• Oct. 24 - "duty, destiny, Dewey" - "nothing left for us to do but take them all... to uplift and Christianize them"
  
• Dec. 6 - George Vest Resolution - no colonies
  
• Dec. 10 - all Phil., P.R., Guam ceded; Cuba free
  
• Feb. 6, 1899 - Treaty of Paris ratified 57-27
  
• Feb. 4 - Phil Insurrection until July 4, 1902
• cost of $400m., 4200 U.S., 220,000 filipino dead
  
• Feb. 17 - Anti-Imperialist League from 30 states
  
• George F. Hoare, Eugene Hale, Mark Twain